Baby weasels "pose" for a picture

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Two baby weasels appeared to pause for a photograph while scampering across a scenic road in the Highlands.

Carrie Urquhart, a driver with Ullapool-based Lochbroom Woodfuels Ltd, took the image on Tuesday morning near Achiltibuie, Highland.

Wee posers: Baby weasels photographed near Achiltibuie

21 June 2018
BBC News


The weasels paused long enough for a picture as they ran across a road near Achiltibuie, Highland

Two baby weasels appeared to pause for a photograph while scampering across a scenic road in the Highlands.

Carrie Urquhart, a driver with Ullapool-based Lochbroom Woodfuels Ltd, took the image on Tuesday morning near Achiltibuie, Highland.

Four of the young animals ran across the road, but two of them paused long enough for the photograph to be taken.

Weasels are the UK's smallest and probably most numerous carnivores, according The Mammal Society information.

They usually have only one litter of between four and six young per breeding season.

Their prey includes mice and voles.

Image copyright of Carrie Urquhart.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44560891
 
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The weasel should be the national animal of Britain. It reflects the Briddish character.

Instead they chose a fictional animal and one that has never been within 1000 miles of Briddin.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
The weasel should be the national animal of Britain. It reflects the Briddish character.

Instead they chose a fictional animal and one that has never been within 1000 miles of Briddin.
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The Romans probably brought some of those in for their famous fun and entertainment. It appears by the extent of their military occupation of Britain, lasting hundreds of years, that the Romans REALLY DIDN'T LIKE the Britons.
 
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Blackleaf said:
Don't you worry about the Saxons. Unlike the Celts in Britain, they were never conquered by the Romans.
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Not 100% true. The Romans kept the Saxons at Bay and out of the Rhineland. That started the Saxons on their famous quest for leibensraum when the Roman Legions retreated.
 
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Jinentonix said:
Normans are French. Deal with it.
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They weren't in 1066.

I always find it amusing when some people today think the Normans were French and ignore the fact that William the Conqueror himself hated the French and died whilst on campaign against them.

I think you mean England and Wales. Rome never conquered Scotland.
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Codswallop. The Romans built a whopping big wall across Scotland's Central Belt.
 
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Blackleaf said:
They weren't in 1066.

I always find it amusing when some people today think the Normans were French and ignore the fact that William the Conqueror himself hated the French and died whilst on campaign against them.
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That's right, it was Vikings. My mistake.



Blackleaf said:
Codswallop. The Romans built a whopping big wall across Scotland's Central Belt.
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The Central Belt, because the Romans couldn't handle the Highlanders or their neighbours.
 
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